Tom Brown's Schooldays - Couverture souple

Hughes, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192835351 ISBN 13 : 9780192835352

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Hughes Thomas

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'Tom Browns Schooldays' erschien in dieser Ausgabe 1993, 2007 wurde 'Tom Brown at Oxford' hinzugefügt. Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) and Alec Waugh (in The Loom of Youth). The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a confident young man. This classic tale of a boy's schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication in 1857. In its less well-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford, we follow our hero to St Ambrose's College, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century.

Biographie de l'auteur

Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, politician, and author best known for his semi-autobiographical classic Tom Brown's School Days. Trained as a lawyer, Hughes was appointed a county-court judge before being elected to the British Parliament. Hughes was also a committed social reformer, and was one of the founders and later principal of Working Men's College. His interest in social structures led him to become involved with the model village, and he later founded a settlement that experimented with utopian life in Tennessee. In addition to Tom Brown, Hughes penned The Scouring of the White Horse, Tom Brown at Oxford, Life of Alfred the Great, and Memoir of a Brother. He died in 1896.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0192835351
• ISBN 13: 9780192835352
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464